Hoping someone here can help. Here is my setup. I have a LinuxMCE 0704 dedicated core running. I have a 1.2TB raid array on it. I am currently using it in conjunction with a KnoppMyth r5f27 box. The KnoppMyth box records to the /home/public/data/video directory on the core over a network. The problem I am having is a wierd one. I want to use the KnoppMyth MythMusic to play music that is stored on /home/public/data/audio. This worked before I had KnoppMyth version r5e50. When I upgraded, I ran into a mount problem. When I mount the /home/public/data directory using smbfs I can see everything however, for some reason I get a bunch of smb errors and it takes forever to scan the directory. So I tried to mount using CIFS hoping that that would cause fewer errors. However, when I do a "mount -t cifs" it mounts, however the /home/public/data/audio and /home/public/data/video directories only show a "*" directory and not the actual contents. The /home/public/data/pictures directory is ok. Has anyone ever run into this before?

Ok, I have tried a couple of other things. I can browse and read the missing directories in /home/public/data/audio from a winxp box as well as a Suse 10.2 box (using Konquerer). However, on the Suse box, I get the same behavior (as on the knoppmyth box) if I try to mount from command line. e.g. I only get a "*" directory after I cifs mount it.

I thought the NFS mount solved things because I could scan the /home/public/data/audio directory, however, I couldn't get the thing to write recorded tv shows using myth. So I am back to trying to solve the CIFS issue. The wierd thing is before I couldn't get anything in the /mnt/public/audio folder. that is now showing up. Now I can't get it show any files in the /mnt/public/videos folder The mount for /mnt/public shows up and most directories are read/write - able. All except for the /mnt/public/videos folder...

Thanks for the reply pixelator.

Here is the relevant info:

In /etc/fstab (username and password changed to protect the innocent;)//192.168.80.1/public /mnt/public/ cifs username=User1,password=PassWord,filemode=0766,dir_mode=0777,uid=User1,gid=public

So according to this, it should be ok. I'm just using it as a linux share instead of a windoze share. And in fact it had been working just fine before. And it works fine for most of the /home/public/data directories. It seems like just one doesn't want to play nice.